Jumping floor lava.
Monday, June 3, 2019
You can do that
The boys have a trampoline and my brother just got them a dog. Border Collie. I'm curious if the boys put the dog on the trampoline. It's a puppy so I doubt it could do anything other than just sit on it.
Trump helicopter presser
Trump is heading off to Britain. To see the queen. Apparently. Of all things.
I don't get it. Explain it to me please.
Anyway.
That this happens in London brings with the usual wankers. The douchebags with their little Trump balloon that's smaller than a Macy's parade balloon and when flown is engulfed by the street to insignificance of a pub sign yet given the media attention of Mars landing, and the London mayor who despises Trump for all the truth Trump delivers on Muslim immigration. (If your culture is so f'k'n brilliant then why does it self-drain so noisily to more prosperous and more stable western countries?)
Best part: the end. Trump is asked if he would be willing to meet with Sadiq Khan in London -- the mayor.
Trump answers, "No. I don't think much of him. I think that he's a -- he's the twin of de Blasio. Except shorter."
God, I love that. The exact same thing as de Blasio. 'Cept dif'enrt.
So dismissive.
It cracks me up just writing it.
I don't get it. Explain it to me please.
Anyway.
That this happens in London brings with the usual wankers. The douchebags with their little Trump balloon that's smaller than a Macy's parade balloon and when flown is engulfed by the street to insignificance of a pub sign yet given the media attention of Mars landing, and the London mayor who despises Trump for all the truth Trump delivers on Muslim immigration. (If your culture is so f'k'n brilliant then why does it self-drain so noisily to more prosperous and more stable western countries?)
Best part: the end. Trump is asked if he would be willing to meet with Sadiq Khan in London -- the mayor.
Trump answers, "No. I don't think much of him. I think that he's a -- he's the twin of de Blasio. Except shorter."
God, I love that. The exact same thing as de Blasio. 'Cept dif'enrt.
So dismissive.
It cracks me up just writing it.
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Chris Wallace with Mick Mulvaney
Fox News' little pet dope in the archaic guild that passes itself off as free press asks his prepared Democrat questions of Trump's acting chief-of staff, but Chris Wallace is not prepared for Mick Mulvaney's sharp answers.
The match is unbalanced. On one side is mediocre intelligence with carefully prepared biased questions written from hate and honed to acute perfection reviewed by teams and with producer coaches in his ear and on the other hand there is sheer sharp quick agile intelligence with internalized truths inured by repeated attack.
Our extremely childish nattering press is flogging the USS McCain inquiry attempting to get as much mileage as they got out of Bush II's "Mission Accomplished" banner.
It's the exact same thing all over again except different.
In both cases someone working for the president acted without the president's knowledge imagining they were reading their boss' mind when they were not. They both did something the president would not do. Then the press presents the story as if they were the President's ideas when they were not. And all commentary follows based on this misrepresentation.
Like this. All I have to do is enter [uss mccain] and the stupidest crap comes up immediately. Read the comments that all take the reporting as accurate received wisdom. The discussion will be completely dominated by malevolently misreported crap, propaganda by Democrats for Democrat consumption.
And when you tell everyone that you know that they need much better sources of information the first thing they'll say is "But what about Fox?"
Then you say, "Yes. Even those assholes will make you sound stupid."
The match is unbalanced. On one side is mediocre intelligence with carefully prepared biased questions written from hate and honed to acute perfection reviewed by teams and with producer coaches in his ear and on the other hand there is sheer sharp quick agile intelligence with internalized truths inured by repeated attack.
Our extremely childish nattering press is flogging the USS McCain inquiry attempting to get as much mileage as they got out of Bush II's "Mission Accomplished" banner.
It's the exact same thing all over again except different.
In both cases someone working for the president acted without the president's knowledge imagining they were reading their boss' mind when they were not. They both did something the president would not do. Then the press presents the story as if they were the President's ideas when they were not. And all commentary follows based on this misrepresentation.
Like this. All I have to do is enter [uss mccain] and the stupidest crap comes up immediately. Read the comments that all take the reporting as accurate received wisdom. The discussion will be completely dominated by malevolently misreported crap, propaganda by Democrats for Democrat consumption.
And when you tell everyone that you know that they need much better sources of information the first thing they'll say is "But what about Fox?"
Then you say, "Yes. Even those assholes will make you sound stupid."
Lyre, Lyre, World On Fire
Another animal sporting a lyre-tail is the neolamprologus brichardi, also know as the lyre-tailed cichlid:
Back in the day when I collected aquarium fish, that was as good as it got for grace and beauty in a tropical fish; the pink flesh, the bluish eyes and blue-fringed fins -- this fish beat all other freshwater fish on aesthetics. Note that I wrote freshwater because I never graduated to saltwater aquaria.
What's a lyre you might ask? It's an instrument which used to inspire lyrics. Here's what a lyre may have sounded like in end times at the town of Har Megiddo.
What's a lyre you might ask? It's an instrument which used to inspire lyrics. Here's what a lyre may have sounded like in end times at the town of Har Megiddo.
BBC Attenborough, Lyre bird
In other videos of this bird on YouTube the birds make different sounds. They're all impressive.
Comments on YouTube are funny.
The best part is the Lyre bird imitating Attenborough all the way through.
The United Spot, Awesome and Listen to Me
Easy enough to find the video ↓ that this ↑ one is based on [boy listen to me].
Sidney Powell, guilty until proven innocent
This is very good all the way through. You should watch it.
She appears in comments occasionally at the Last Refuge and commenters there are quick to tell her how good her book is, Amazon best seller, License to Lie.
She appears in comments occasionally at the Last Refuge and commenters there are quick to tell her how good her book is, Amazon best seller, License to Lie.
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Your breath is really bad
I still cannot get over this.
This right here is the quintessential Trump.
I can think of only one person among my friends who would do this.
And it forces me to think back through all those times I suffered with people's bad breath all in my face. I'm no doctor but I could actually smell their decayed tooth or their troubled stomach or the bacterial colony in their mouth running rampant for lack of a good brushing but social norms as I understood them prevented me from saying anything that could hurt someone's feelings.
Except possibly, "Here Philip, have a piece of gum."
"No thank you."
"I said, 'have a piece of gum.'"
And that's as far as I could ever go.
It's not exactly why we hired Trump for president, but it's one of the things.
Things like this. The straightforwardness. The direct attack at the worst thing that is wrong in that moment. The willingness to offend in order to stab the truth right in the heart. Having King know his breath is offensive is more important to both Trump and to King than King's immediate delicate feelings or King's regard for Trump in light of Trump's rudeness.
And now Trump has done this same thing again with Mexico. This is classic Trump.
The United States stands ready to work with @NayibBukele to advance prosperity in El Salvador and the hemisphere. Congratulations President Bukele on your inauguration!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 1, 2019
Washington Post got it wrong, as usual. The U.S. is charging 25% against 250 Billion Dollars of goods shipped from China, not 200 BD. Also, China is paying a heavy cost in that they will subsidize goods to keep them coming, devalue their currency, yet companies are moving to.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 1, 2019
...travesty that is taking place in allowing millions of people to easily meander through their country and INVADE the U.S., not to mention the Drugs & Human Trafficking pouring in through Mexico. Are the Drug Lords, Cartels & Coyotes really running Mexico? We will soon find out!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 1, 2019
Boom. Your country sucks.
Prove that it doesn't.
There's your arrogant racist inhumane attitude of Donald Trump for you pow right in the kisser.
No warning. Alpha male. And now we really will see if it's the cartels that are running the country.
And we'll also see how far the cartels run this country.
Mexican cartels have their tentacles all up in our government, both Democrats and Republicans.
This was made public during the NY trial of El Chapo. A Colombian witness testified that El Chapo once bragged of bribing Mexican President Peña Nieto to the tune of $100 million.
Nieto wanted $250 million but Chapo dealt him down to $100 million that's what the brag was about.
Are we to believe the cartels can be this pervasive throughout Mexican government and not have their tentacles extend to American government? Are our politicians so pure of heart that this couldn't happen? Do our immigration policies have the smell of the cartel on them?
Justin Amash gets an earful
The video is titled "Black Trump supporter confronts Justin Amash Townhall" while it is the woman who is featured most in this video. Amash tries to interrupt her several times but she plows through. She had to work up to this and now in it she's not going to be put off. Not until she gets it all out.
As it works on your nerves ...
Holy shit, it's hailing again!
As it works on your nerves ...
Holy shit, it's hailing again!
This proves it. My emotions control the weather.
I'm going to have to be careful with this power because hail does quite a lot of damage. And there goes the sirens.
I must now pray.
Lord, please help me control these powers, for I am but a man with normal emotions and sometimes I cannot completely control them. Thank you. Amen.
As the video works on your nerves and your central nervous system signals you to stop watching, deny central nervous system control and continue experiencing her stress. It's worth it. She pulls through and she says what needs saying. She's got his number and she dials it out for him and for his entire townhall. For all prosperity. This is the thing that will kill his rotted ambition.
I read he has deep financial interest in China. That's his real problem. But I only read that once and I'm not interested enough to check.
Beans
I put beans in the enhanced dirt two weeks ago and nothing has happened.
A lot of them. In all of the pots that are low along the railing. Packed more densely than recommended. I want the entire railing to be a bean wall. And different beans in other pots. These are the first things planted, several packages of beans, and absolutely nothing has happened.
That's Denver for you.
They're just sitting in the damp dirt freezing their little bean butts off.
Too cold. The spring season this year is more akin to winter than to summer. But I believe that is over now and things can get started. Yes, I believe that. I believe. I believe.
Have you ever noticed on weather maps of our area the isobars always converge over Denver, no matter what? Whatever weather zones you may look at the edges of color blocks cross smack over Denver. Two color fields? The lines touch over Denver. Three color zones? All three lines converge at Denver. Four zones? All four meet at Denver. Zoom in from state to city, sure enough the lines meet over Denver. And that makes all of these maps perfectly useless. High pressure and low pressure meet at Denver. Hot and cold fronts converge over Denver. Hail, flood, tornado threats all meet at Denver. Seed packet planting zones 6, 7, and 8 converge on Denver. Wavy horizontal layers across the country pinch at Denver. Vertical lines pinch at Denver. Hippy zone vs Cowboy zone converge on Denver and so on, map after map after map.
Why do I even bother?
Most people don't. Their planters sit idle until the season becomes steady. And that's usually well into summer.
Spring is the weirdest thing. Look around as you drive, look at people's porches as you go, there is nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, massive blooming cartoon clematis, nothing, nothing, nothing. No wait. Is that clematis even real? Or did someone fake us out with giant white plastic blooms? Come on. How does that even happen?
Beans are the easiest things. You don't even have to soak them. They self-soak in damp dirt.
Just stick them in a glass of dirt and watch them grow. Shirley, you did this in school in the first grade.
And it's just amazing!
It never ceases being amazing. You stay stuck at first grade amazement. By you I mean me.
A lot of them. In all of the pots that are low along the railing. Packed more densely than recommended. I want the entire railing to be a bean wall. And different beans in other pots. These are the first things planted, several packages of beans, and absolutely nothing has happened.
That's Denver for you.
They're just sitting in the damp dirt freezing their little bean butts off.
Too cold. The spring season this year is more akin to winter than to summer. But I believe that is over now and things can get started. Yes, I believe that. I believe. I believe.
Have you ever noticed on weather maps of our area the isobars always converge over Denver, no matter what? Whatever weather zones you may look at the edges of color blocks cross smack over Denver. Two color fields? The lines touch over Denver. Three color zones? All three lines converge at Denver. Four zones? All four meet at Denver. Zoom in from state to city, sure enough the lines meet over Denver. And that makes all of these maps perfectly useless. High pressure and low pressure meet at Denver. Hot and cold fronts converge over Denver. Hail, flood, tornado threats all meet at Denver. Seed packet planting zones 6, 7, and 8 converge on Denver. Wavy horizontal layers across the country pinch at Denver. Vertical lines pinch at Denver. Hippy zone vs Cowboy zone converge on Denver and so on, map after map after map.
Why do I even bother?
Most people don't. Their planters sit idle until the season becomes steady. And that's usually well into summer.
Spring is the weirdest thing. Look around as you drive, look at people's porches as you go, there is nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, massive blooming cartoon clematis, nothing, nothing, nothing. No wait. Is that clematis even real? Or did someone fake us out with giant white plastic blooms? Come on. How does that even happen?
Beans are the easiest things. You don't even have to soak them. They self-soak in damp dirt.
Just stick them in a glass of dirt and watch them grow. Shirley, you did this in school in the first grade.
And it's just amazing!
It never ceases being amazing. You stay stuck at first grade amazement. By you I mean me.
Seed-a-lings, stop it, you're killing me.
Don Surber, Never-Trumper shows his ignorance
Surber read something by Philip Klein in the Washington Examiner. Surber calls him a Bill Kristol wannabe who says Trump's tariff warning to Mexico "is mindbogglingly stupid," then asks, how difficult is it to boggle the mind of a Never Trumper?
See, the tariffs are a warning.
A warning against Obrador's stated attitude and intended policy regarding South American migrants and the United States.
He's got a bug up his ass about the United States, "No country will use Mexico as piñata." That, after NAFTA results in billions of American manufacturing relocating to Mexico and American middle class drains while Mexican middle class builds.
All the references I've seen go to Daily Caller. Apparently Daily Caller is singular in picking this up. I'm reading on American Thinker but they're linking to Daily Caller. Daily Caller refers to eluniversal.com where this video in Spanish is published.
Eluniversal has the transcript.
But it's in Spanish.
And it cannot be copy/pasted
So you'll have to rely on moy.
I meant to say rely on moi.
Arrogant, racist and inhumane attitude of the Donald Trump government? F you. Do you honestly expect American taxpayers to simply scoop up and absorb all that you deliver? Do you expect us to forfeit our civilization for yours?
After your sick mischaracterizations and your bizarre worldview why should we even talk to you instead of smacking you around like a piñata?
By necessity must leave their villages to seek life in the United States.
Entire towns emptied. Whole cities depopulated, and transferred to United States. Why? No addressing root causes like sick-ass governments. Pathetic cultures. And the answer is just move all the poverty out.
Repressive, racist, inhumane actions of US government.
No, that's cynical, race-baiting, unconscionable actions of Mexican government to make themselves Slip N Slide speedway through Mexico to United States border. Mexico has control of its own southern border. Mexico has strict and exclusive immigration policies. Mexico protects its own culture. And what's so necessary about bypassing Mexico? Is this Mexico's way of admitting that immigrating to Mexico is tantamount to moving from one shit hole to another? How bizarre to insist that another country must open its borders. Just F you.
It's the same thing as Ireland admitting, "Man, we really blew it with that whole potato thing." And potatoes are American! Feeding their entire population relied on one American vegetable. And their political system was too jacked to handle their own population, and their population too weak to overturn their own government.
Solution: move to America en mass.
Problem with German hegemony. Solution: move to America en mass.
Problem with crime and poor government and zero economic potential. Solution: move to America en mass.
That's not leadership. That's currying favor among political retards. The man actually has his audience believing this bullshit. He insists Mexico will not be a piñata to foreign governments as he behaves as piñata to foreign governments.
The comments in Spanish to this article on eluniversal prove the extremely sorry state of comprehension. As do the comments to the same video published on YouTube.
Back to Philip Klein.
Klein states the tariff amounts to tax increase. And it punishes industries that will be affected by inevitable retaliatory tariffs.
Surber says, wrong. Tariff is a voluntary tax avoided by buying American-made products.
Klein says this comes as Trump is jump starting his US/Mex/Can agreement.
Surber say, nice to see a Never Trumper side with him on NAFTA.
Klein wrote, the previous administration's tariffs were part of a broader strategy to negotiate better trade deals but Trump is lumping tariffs with border control.
Surber says, of course they are linked. Mexico traded welfare cases for jobs with the United States ever since Reagan who promised enforcement but never delivered.
Surber should have said Mexico received both America's production and America's welfare state as pressure valve needed because of Mexico's shit hole 3rd world banana republic sitting so closely next to shimmering glimmering alluring crime-controlled politically successful Nirvana by way of sharp contrast constantly teasing a life that could be.
It's adage in Mexico: "Poor Mexico, so far from heaven, so close to America" that's supposed to be ironically derogatory toward American somehow. We're not heaven, but somehow we vex poor lovely innocent Mexico by our geological nearness.
Klein writes, it's hard to see how this facilitates containing Mexican immigration. Better to improve Mexican economy.
Surber writes, that's what NAFTA said. We went from 3 million illegals to 11 million under NAFTA.
But Surber should have said, there's a lot that's difficult for Klein to see. It's not Mexican immigration, rather, it's countries south of Mexico. It's Obrador's stated policy to facilitate South American immigration, not just Mexican immigration. It's seen by Mexico stopping it flat at Mexico's own southern border.
Klein writes, it's unclear how all this will be measured.
Surber writes, that's the essence of negotiation. Trump's critics always say this as if it's a bad thing.
Then, comments usually rather tight, run off the rails by the same narrow perspective that Klein has and that Navarro's interlocutors show in the previous post. They address tariffs in relation to production and consumers as two closed sets, while the consumers are also suffering the expense of unchecked invasion of both labor and welfare cases in numbers too extreme to absorb.
The various costs of all those things are not calculated in their economic models. They're too amorphous to get a clear handle on so they're all simply ignored.
The cost in terms of schools, in terms of prisons, and policing, and acceptance of voter fraud, hospital care, healthcare in general, the very basics in food, clothing, housing, education, disease control, even racial disruption.
In steady amount, by controlled flow, all of that is manageable, but when governments themselves encourage this movement in massive numbers it's obviously destructive to host countries. Why are we even having this argument? Why are these things that are so very clear to all sides even under discussion? When you begin your bullshit with "arrogant, racist and inhumane attitude of Donald Trump's government" then you haven't a good leg to stand on. Not after tapping America's production and relying upon American market and depending upon American welfare to care for your own population.
See, the tariffs are a warning.
A warning against Obrador's stated attitude and intended policy regarding South American migrants and the United States.
He's got a bug up his ass about the United States, "No country will use Mexico as piñata." That, after NAFTA results in billions of American manufacturing relocating to Mexico and American middle class drains while Mexican middle class builds.
All the references I've seen go to Daily Caller. Apparently Daily Caller is singular in picking this up. I'm reading on American Thinker but they're linking to Daily Caller. Daily Caller refers to eluniversal.com where this video in Spanish is published.
Eluniversal has the transcript.
But it's in Spanish.
And it cannot be copy/pasted
So you'll have to rely on moy.
I meant to say rely on moi.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidato presidencial por la coalición Juntos Haremos Historia, protestó por lo sucedido en Estados Unidos con los niños migrantes encerrados en jaulas y pidió al Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto acciones urgentes para detener la actitud prepotente, racista e inhumana del gobierno de Donald Trump.
Al arrancar su discurso en un mitin en esta ciudad, el candidato de Morena-PES-PT exigió al presidente Peña Nieto que ponga en marcha tres acciones urgentes:
La primera se trata de una nota diplomática de protesta contra gobierno de Donald Trump; la segunda es solicitar la urgente intervención del alto comisionado de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) y que se detenga esa actitud prepotente, racista, inhumana de deportar a niños ponerlos en jaulas y separarlos de sus padres. Eso va en contra de los derechos humanos más fundamentales.
Y la tercera que Peña Nieto envié de inmediato un equipo de profesionales a la frontera, abogados, psicólogos, trabajadores sociales para apoyar a los niños y sus familiares.
Adelantó que va a estar pendiente en estos días por las acciones represivas, racistas e inhumanas del gobierno estadounidense.
El tabasqueño afirmó que, de ganar la presidencia, se va a convertir en un defensor de los migrantes del continente Americano y del mundo.
"Y ya pronto, muy pronto, al triunfo de nuestro movimiento vamos a defender a los migrantes de todo el continente Americano y todos los migrantes del mundo que, por necesidad, tienen que abandonar sus pueblos para buscar la vida en Estados Unidos, es un derecho humano que vamos a defender," expresó.Look, Asshole. You talk about being disrespected while being disrespectful by mischaracterizing the situation so woefully to misplace blame, conveniently omitting crucial elements that hold the understanding in favor of slippery superficial careless skimming. You are speaking ignorantly to ignorant people and not helping them comprehend the situation at all.
Arrogant, racist and inhumane attitude of the Donald Trump government? F you. Do you honestly expect American taxpayers to simply scoop up and absorb all that you deliver? Do you expect us to forfeit our civilization for yours?
After your sick mischaracterizations and your bizarre worldview why should we even talk to you instead of smacking you around like a piñata?
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presidential candidate for the Together We Make History coalition, protested what happened in the United States with migrant children locked in cages and asked President Enrique Peña Nieto for urgent actions to stop the arrogant, racist and inhumane attitude of Donald Trump's government.
When starting his speech at a rally in this city, the candidate of Morena-PES-PT demanded President Peña Nieto launch three urgent actions:
The first one is a diplomatic note of protest against Donald Trump's government; the second is to request the urgent intervention of the high commissioner of the United Nations (UN) to stop this arrogant, racist, inhuman attitude of deporting, and separating children from their parents and putting them in cages. This goes against the most fundamental human rights.
And the third that Peña Nieto immediately send a team of professionals to the border; lawyers, psychologists, social workers to support the children and their families.
He said these days he will be keeping an eye on the repressive, racist and inhuman actions of the US government.
The Tabascqueño affirmed that, if he wins the presidency, he will become an advocate for migrants from the Americas and the world.
"And soon, very soon, to the triumph of our movement, we will defend migrants from all over the American continent and all the migrants in the world who, by necessity, have to leave their villages to seek life in the United States. It's a human right that we are going to defend, "he said.Know what goes against fundamental human rights? Encouraging vulnerable people to leave their homes en mass, to give up on their own self-governing, and instead endure a dangerous journey with no resources, relying on the handouts of others, a journey fraught with hazards natural and manmade, and organized by criminals to invade a neighboring country en mass to overwhelm their government resources and bring their civilization to ruin.
By necessity must leave their villages to seek life in the United States.
Entire towns emptied. Whole cities depopulated, and transferred to United States. Why? No addressing root causes like sick-ass governments. Pathetic cultures. And the answer is just move all the poverty out.
Repressive, racist, inhumane actions of US government.
No, that's cynical, race-baiting, unconscionable actions of Mexican government to make themselves Slip N Slide speedway through Mexico to United States border. Mexico has control of its own southern border. Mexico has strict and exclusive immigration policies. Mexico protects its own culture. And what's so necessary about bypassing Mexico? Is this Mexico's way of admitting that immigrating to Mexico is tantamount to moving from one shit hole to another? How bizarre to insist that another country must open its borders. Just F you.
It's the same thing as Ireland admitting, "Man, we really blew it with that whole potato thing." And potatoes are American! Feeding their entire population relied on one American vegetable. And their political system was too jacked to handle their own population, and their population too weak to overturn their own government.
Solution: move to America en mass.
Problem with German hegemony. Solution: move to America en mass.
Problem with crime and poor government and zero economic potential. Solution: move to America en mass.
That's not leadership. That's currying favor among political retards. The man actually has his audience believing this bullshit. He insists Mexico will not be a piñata to foreign governments as he behaves as piñata to foreign governments.
The comments in Spanish to this article on eluniversal prove the extremely sorry state of comprehension. As do the comments to the same video published on YouTube.
Back to Philip Klein.
Klein states the tariff amounts to tax increase. And it punishes industries that will be affected by inevitable retaliatory tariffs.
Surber says, wrong. Tariff is a voluntary tax avoided by buying American-made products.
Klein says this comes as Trump is jump starting his US/Mex/Can agreement.
Surber say, nice to see a Never Trumper side with him on NAFTA.
Klein wrote, the previous administration's tariffs were part of a broader strategy to negotiate better trade deals but Trump is lumping tariffs with border control.
Surber says, of course they are linked. Mexico traded welfare cases for jobs with the United States ever since Reagan who promised enforcement but never delivered.
Surber should have said Mexico received both America's production and America's welfare state as pressure valve needed because of Mexico's shit hole 3rd world banana republic sitting so closely next to shimmering glimmering alluring crime-controlled politically successful Nirvana by way of sharp contrast constantly teasing a life that could be.
It's adage in Mexico: "Poor Mexico, so far from heaven, so close to America" that's supposed to be ironically derogatory toward American somehow. We're not heaven, but somehow we vex poor lovely innocent Mexico by our geological nearness.
Klein writes, it's hard to see how this facilitates containing Mexican immigration. Better to improve Mexican economy.
Surber writes, that's what NAFTA said. We went from 3 million illegals to 11 million under NAFTA.
But Surber should have said, there's a lot that's difficult for Klein to see. It's not Mexican immigration, rather, it's countries south of Mexico. It's Obrador's stated policy to facilitate South American immigration, not just Mexican immigration. It's seen by Mexico stopping it flat at Mexico's own southern border.
Klein writes, it's unclear how all this will be measured.
Surber writes, that's the essence of negotiation. Trump's critics always say this as if it's a bad thing.
Then, comments usually rather tight, run off the rails by the same narrow perspective that Klein has and that Navarro's interlocutors show in the previous post. They address tariffs in relation to production and consumers as two closed sets, while the consumers are also suffering the expense of unchecked invasion of both labor and welfare cases in numbers too extreme to absorb.
The various costs of all those things are not calculated in their economic models. They're too amorphous to get a clear handle on so they're all simply ignored.
The cost in terms of schools, in terms of prisons, and policing, and acceptance of voter fraud, hospital care, healthcare in general, the very basics in food, clothing, housing, education, disease control, even racial disruption.
In steady amount, by controlled flow, all of that is manageable, but when governments themselves encourage this movement in massive numbers it's obviously destructive to host countries. Why are we even having this argument? Why are these things that are so very clear to all sides even under discussion? When you begin your bullshit with "arrogant, racist and inhumane attitude of Donald Trump's government" then you haven't a good leg to stand on. Not after tapping America's production and relying upon American market and depending upon American welfare to care for your own population.
CNBC, WH Advisor Navarro on Trump's Mexican tariffs
I don't watch these people. They're brought to my attention by people who do. The questions are from a point of view that is too narrow and that's never called out so that answers are unsatisfactory.
For example. The woman asks from a place that considers consumers and producers while ignoring taxpayers. "Why have a policy that also hurts American consumers?"
I'll be pleased to pay higher prices for avocados, that fluctuate throughout the year anyway, you never do know if you'll be paying a dollar for two avocados or two dollars apiece, it doesn't actually matter, I'll have the avocados if I want them, and if the higher prices comes with secured borders and I'm not paying for more elementary schools, more middle schools and more high schools, not paying for more public housing, not paying for more healthcare and more food stamps, not paying in terms of more crime and for interpreters in courtrooms, not paying in terms of deeper flood of narcotic drugs flowing across the border unimpeded. See, her concern is narrowed to consumer ignoring that same consumer is also a job-seeking taxpaying citizen. It's all producers and consumers to her. She is too simple.
The man mischaracterizes Trump walking out of his meeting with Pelosi and Schumer. He ignores that Pelosi sabotaged the meeting by trashing Trump in a presser immediately beforehand. He ignores that insincerity is unacceptable. Her duplicity prevented any progress whatsoever. But the man frames the question in terms of Trump saying he cannot work with Congress trying to impeach him. He framed his question precisely in reverse giving Pelosi free pass to sabotage everything and leave the impossible task of healing differences to Trump.
Navarro says, "That's a fair question."
No, it is not. It is an unbalanced wobbly lopsided question framed as partisan anti-Trumper so F you right in the B.H. *click*
There is no good reason to watch.
With that out of the way, let's watch. Here's Trump advisor defending Trump's policy to a hostile media.
I believe he does poorly because he is not nearly aggressive enough toward both questioners. He should have smacked them both for their stupid questions. He's too nice.
For example. The woman asks from a place that considers consumers and producers while ignoring taxpayers. "Why have a policy that also hurts American consumers?"
I'll be pleased to pay higher prices for avocados, that fluctuate throughout the year anyway, you never do know if you'll be paying a dollar for two avocados or two dollars apiece, it doesn't actually matter, I'll have the avocados if I want them, and if the higher prices comes with secured borders and I'm not paying for more elementary schools, more middle schools and more high schools, not paying for more public housing, not paying for more healthcare and more food stamps, not paying in terms of more crime and for interpreters in courtrooms, not paying in terms of deeper flood of narcotic drugs flowing across the border unimpeded. See, her concern is narrowed to consumer ignoring that same consumer is also a job-seeking taxpaying citizen. It's all producers and consumers to her. She is too simple.
The man mischaracterizes Trump walking out of his meeting with Pelosi and Schumer. He ignores that Pelosi sabotaged the meeting by trashing Trump in a presser immediately beforehand. He ignores that insincerity is unacceptable. Her duplicity prevented any progress whatsoever. But the man frames the question in terms of Trump saying he cannot work with Congress trying to impeach him. He framed his question precisely in reverse giving Pelosi free pass to sabotage everything and leave the impossible task of healing differences to Trump.
Navarro says, "That's a fair question."
No, it is not. It is an unbalanced wobbly lopsided question framed as partisan anti-Trumper so F you right in the B.H. *click*
There is no good reason to watch.
With that out of the way, let's watch. Here's Trump advisor defending Trump's policy to a hostile media.
I believe he does poorly because he is not nearly aggressive enough toward both questioners. He should have smacked them both for their stupid questions. He's too nice.
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